A Small gripe

[Wildsprite]

<< THIS

<<< Or this with polish

why not this

slightly bigger than this?


afterall isnt it supposed to be a fraction of the big guy's power you are using?

[DarkRain]

why not this

slightly bigger than this?


afterall isnt it supposed to be a fraction of the big guy's power you are using?

That is what im suggesting . The same model but much smaller would have been 1000 times better then the current Egi design

[Mikedizzy]

I wanted to play a summoner until I saw these...now I am like no way!!!!

[Ryknow]

In the future i do believe that they should make "ACTUAL" summons and have the Egi's as what the elemental summons on XI were. That would be pretty god damn impressive.

[Wildsprite]

In the future i do believe that they should make "ACTUAL" summons and have the Egi's as what the elemental summons on XI were. That would be pretty god damn impressive.

I completely agree

[ispano]

The EGI are manifestations of the Primal's power. Not a mini version of the Primal itself. The lore is rather clear also that Primals are worshipped as Gods, and that's part of why you don't get to summon them, small or not.

[Ryuko]

The naming conventions make it confusing, but Ifrit-Egi is not technically a 'tiny' Ifrit (Primal), nor are you directly drawing FROM Ifrit (Primal). You are drawing from the same aether energy that created Ifrit (Fire elemental prime). So, even though it's named Ifrit-Egi, that is why it's not really a carbon copy of Ifrit (but smaller).

The more energy a summoned being has, the more defined and life-like it looks. Ifrit-Egi, Garuda-Egi, and Titan-Egi do not look as lifelike as the primals. They look more like elementals with lifelike shapes. The reason Summoners cannot 'take on' more energy than this is because it would be dangerous to do so. Do you notice how the primals have 'corrupted' the beastmen who call upon them? And those are whole beast tribes! If one summoner calls upon too much power, he or she will be incapable of controlling it... or at least that is the assumption based on the storyline, anyway.

I understand if people are not comfortable with this lore. It can be disappointing if you're used to the crazy powerful Summoners of other games... However, it DOES fit in with this particular game's lore. So, if you dislike how it is... say you dislike the lore entirely. Don't say that it doesn't fit the game lore.

Anyway... I'm not so much bothered by the shape or detail as I am bothered by the size. In the grand scheme of things, Summoner and Scholar pets are very little. I don't want the Egi to be increased TOO much in size (especially not to the ratio it was in FFXI!), but a small increase once the level cap is raised (to compensate for the summoner getting 'more powerful') would be nice.

Oh, obligatory comment about how dozens of these threads already exist~

[Vermilion]

Simple solution, don't play summoner.
Devs can do what they want, if they want to make summons look like cheap knockoffs' of the real thing let them.
Whining won't change it.

[Krystalynn]

I hate what they've done with Summoners in this game. It's tragic. I know they wanted to make the Espers into Primals and have them be this important role in the story... but what you got instead was really kind of lame in return. No variety, no size. You get a cute pokemon or some random world of warcraft elemental reject.